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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 761848" data-attributes="member: 12952">Reality TV finalist Francisco Patino steered developer to mosque site near Ground ZeroMichael Daly&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; As if the mosque controversy could not get any weirder, it turns out&nbsp; the person who found the site two blocks from Ground Zero was a teenage&nbsp; reality show contestant from Queens.
Not that young Francisco Patino can really be faulted.
He was just doing the bidding of a real estate developer who hired&nbsp; him in 2006 after chancing to see him on &quot;American Inventor.&quot; The show&nbsp; happened to be on a floor-model TV while the developer was shopping at a&nbsp; Sharper Image in Manhattan.
&quot;I saw him on TV and I like him,&quot; the developer, Sharif el-Gamal, said Wednesday.


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[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 761848, member: 12952"] [B]Reality TV finalist Francisco Patino steered developer to mosque site near Ground Zero[/B] Michael Daly [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]As if the mosque controversy could not get any weirder, it turns out the person who found the site two blocks from Ground Zero was a teenage reality show contestant from Queens. Not that young Francisco Patino can really be faulted. He was just doing the bidding of a real estate developer who hired him in 2006 after chancing to see him on "American Inventor." The show happened to be on a floor-model TV while the developer was shopping at a Sharper Image in Manhattan. "I saw him on TV and I like him," the developer, Sharif el-Gamal, said Wednesday. [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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